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Solar rights and planning wrongs

Sunday, 21 February 2021, 09:31 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Solar rights are once more in the public debate. The number of those aware that utilising solar energy for our needs makes both environmental and economic sense is on the increase. Unfortunately, they...

Loose ends

Sunday, 21 February 2021, 08:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Those entering Valletta can see on the right hand side a steel structure which is not in use. That is a lift which was intended to take people down to the ditch and which was meant to offer a...

The heavy load

Saturday, 20 February 2021, 07:09 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

In any other country, by now, with all the steady stream of unethical behaviour, of clear cases of corruption, of a Mafia-state, of denial of civil-society, of a blatant take-over of land and a...

The biggest one in the world

Friday, 19 February 2021, 07:10 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

There is no doubt that the newly hatched, just served, recently unpacked €95.5 billion EU Research and Innovation Fund is the biggest and largest programme in the whole world in its...

Land usage

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Gradually, at par with questions regarding the success or otherwise of economic growth policy or regarding the correct implementations of social justice, another topic has been getting incessant...

Pavements are policy Cinderellas

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 07:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

From one decade to another, one thing remains constant: Pavements are Malta’s policy Cinderellas. To me, this represents a deficit in everyday democracy. The country’s policy elites...

19 is a good age to start (possibly even younger)

Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 06:55 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This week a controversy flared up after Carlos Zarb was appointed Governor on the FinanceMalta board (Government representative).  The ‘socials’ were alight with comments being thrown...

Lost cause for meritocracy in Malta?

Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 06:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

The news of a 19-year old sitting on one of the most important executive boards of government’s machinery provoked two contradictory feelings. On the one hand, how good it would be to involve...

How to recover?

Monday, 15 February 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Once the Covid-19 pandemic is well and truly over, the big challenge will be how to once again restore connectivity – the ties... personal and family-based, economic, social and cultural......

Bernard Grech's growing stature

Sunday, 14 February 2021, 10:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I'm repeatedly confirming that reading about a politician's speech as reported by the media is one thing; hearing it from the politician's mouth is something else altogether. The media can serve as a...

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